Friday, 4 November 2005: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Lansdowne (Peabody Hotel)

Symposium (SYMG)

Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry III

Session III. The symposium “Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry” marks the 20th anniversary of the highly successful Southeastern DNA Group meetings first organized in 1985. Traditionally the DNA symposium has been concurrently held in conjunction with the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS). The meeting provides an excellent mix of cutting-edge science focused in nucleic acid chemistry, structural biology and biophysical chemistry. This year, Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry will specifically focus on the structure and stability of a variety of nucleic acid structural motifs and nucleic acid-ligand complexes from many of the top nucleic acid scientists throughout the nation. For additional information and/or questions regarding this symposium, please contact the organizers, David Graves of the University of Alabama-Birmingham (dgraves@uab.edu) or Jonathan B. Chaires (j.chaires@louisville.edu).
Organizers:David Graves
Jonathan B. Chaires
Presider:Dev P. Arya
8:30 AM471Theoretical Characterization of Magnesium Nucleic Acid Interactions
Gene Lamm, Anton S. Petrov, George R. Pack
9:05 AM472Investigations of the Kinetic and Thermodynamic Contributions that Govern the Relative Populations of Toroids and Rods Observed in a DNA Condensation Reaction
Nicholas V. Hud, Igor Vilfan, Tumpa Sarkar
9:40 AM473Pyrrolo-dC as a Probe of DNA Hairpin Structural Properties
Randy M. Wadkins, Xu Zhang
10:15 AM Intermission
10:25 AM474DNA-Templated Supramolecular Arrays of Organic Dyes: Bright Fluorescent Labels for Bio-Imaging and Detection
Bruce A. Armitage, Andrea L. Benvin, Alan S. Waggoner, Yahuda Creeger, Gregory W. Fisher
10:55 AM475Synthesis, Conformation and Bypass of Carcinogen-modified Oligonucleotides
Carmelo J. Rizzo, James S. Stover, C. Eric Elmquist, Feng Wang, Hong Zang, Michael P. Stone, F. Peter Guengerich
11:25 AM476A Chemical Perspective of RNA Catalysis
Adegboyega Oyelere, Scott Strobel

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